Seiko launches marine collection of watches

Chandigarh, Jan 28: Seiko Watch Corporation, the global leader in watch manufacturing today announced the launch of their most exciting marine collection Velatura-Built for the Oceans, in Chandigarh and Ludhiana in partnership with Ethos, India's leading watch retailer. At the launch Seiko presented a collection of high performance marine watches or men and women, each of which combines the innovation of function with refinement in design.

"Seiko has designed Velatura for the needs of professional and recreational sailors alike", Mr Atsushi Kanekoa, Managing Director, Seiko Watch India Pvt Ltd said at the launch. In 1975, SEIKO made the first diver's watch in the world to have a titanium case, suited to saturation diving to 600 metre. This year, Velatura poses as an important, new marine watch collection that would take its place alongside Premier and Sportura as one of the companys elite collections.

Velatura promises to be the centerpiece of the Seiko campaign in 2008-09, Mr Kanekoa said while revealing that the company would be setting up Seiko Exclusive Image stores in the country soon.